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Hit by flak. Photos shoes the aircraft just seconds before it explodes on the March 6, 1944 Berlin Raid.\u00a0Note the H2X Mickey unit under the nose. Copilot John C Morgan received the Medal of Honor to a mission on 26 July 1943. He is the only Medal of Honor recipient to have been held as a Prisoner of War after being awarded the Medal.<\/p>\n

447th BG Website<\/a>\u00a0noted,\u00a0that the picutre shows the B-17 #42-5909<\/a>. But a closer to you the tail, the numbers 91 are visible.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Delivered Denver 11\/7\/43; Grenier 18\/8\/43; Assigned 812BS\/482BG [MI-G] Alconbury 20\/8\/43 (H2-X); Missing in Action Berlin 6\/3\/44 with Maj Fred Rabo, Co-pilot: John Morgan, Ball turret gunner: Bill Westcott, Waist gunner: Steve Keaton (4 Prisoner of War); Navigator: Capt John Crotty{385BG}, rad\/nav-Capt Ken Klotz, Bombardier: Capt Lou Dentoni, Flight engineer\/top turret gunner: Francis Foote, to-Tom Kon, Waist gunner: Ed Friesorger,Tail gunner: Lt Walter Regoli{385BG}, Mis\/CO-Col Russell Wilson{4BW} (6 Killed in Action); flak hit, ship broke up and crashed Lake Harvel, near Berlin, Ger. Missing Air Crew Report 3362.","protected":false},"featured_media":17630,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"airplane-status":[135],"status-date":[232],"status-day":[1875],"status-month":[1872],"status-year":[1892],"production-block":[58,1265],"manufacturer":[131],"delivered":[],"project-number":[],"bomb-group":[289],"bomb-squadron":[358],"raf-service":[],"b17tags":[],"class_list":["post-1509","b17database","type-b17database","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","airplane-status-lost-by-aa-flak","status-date-06-03-1944","status-day-1875","status-month-march","status-year-1892","production-block-b-17f-70-dl-42-3483-42-3503","production-block-b-17g-1-dl-42-3483-bis-42-3503","manufacturer-douglas","bomb-group-482nd-bomb-group","bomb-squadron-812th-bomb-squadron"],"translation":{"provider":"WPGlobus","version":"3.0.0","language":"en","enabled_languages":["de","en"],"languages":{"de":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":true},"en":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":true}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/b17flyingfortress.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/b17database\/1509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/b17flyingfortress.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/b17database"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/b17flyingfortress.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/b17database"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/b17flyingfortress.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1509"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/b17flyingfortress.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/b17flyingfortress.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"airplane-status","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/b17flyingfortress.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/airplane-status?post=1509"},{"taxonomy":"status-date","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/b17flyingfortress.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/status-date?post=1509"},{"taxonomy":"status-day","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/b17flyingfortress.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/status-day?post=1509"},{"taxonomy":"status-month","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/b17flyingfortress.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/status-month?post=1509"},{"taxonomy":"status-year","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/b17flyingfortress.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/status-year?post=1509"},{"taxonomy":"production-block","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/b17flyingfortress.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/production-block?post=1509"},{"taxonomy":"manufacturer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/b17flyingfortress.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/manufacturer?post=1509"},{"taxonomy":"delivered","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/b17flyingfortress.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/delivered?post=1509"},{"taxonomy":"project-number","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/b17flyingfortress.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/project-number?post=1509"},{"taxonomy":"bomb-group","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/b17flyingfortress.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bomb-group?post=1509"},{"taxonomy":"bomb-squadron","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/b17flyingfortress.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bomb-squadron?post=1509"},{"taxonomy":"raf-service","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/b17flyingfortress.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/raf-service?post=1509"},{"taxonomy":"b17tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/b17flyingfortress.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/b17tags?post=1509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}